we always went off a rifle scale but yeah the frequency's were different. I didn't have the luxery of doing comparisons when I was there but here I have found about a 20 cycle difference between clamps until you get to the higher frequency sets and the shorter irons in those sets the difference increases log rithymically Did I spell that right? LOL!) Sincerely, Robert Devino 14252 Delano St. Van Nuys, Ca. 91401 (818) 770-0475
________________________________ From: Brad Smith <bms0...@pacbell.net> To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:29:40 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: 7-iron at 353 cpm - how? Robert, Regarding the method at HotStix......I assume that if you were going to build irons for a specific player, you'd have one frequency target for Rifles and a different for non-Rifles because of the different clamping length which causes different cantilevered beam lengths. Is that correct? Do you remember what the frequency difference was? Brad On Dec 11, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Robert Devino wrote: ........When I was at HotStix we had a machine that used a drill chuck type clamp. We used it for both Rifle and non Rifle shafts but we measured the shaft length differently. First we measured the total length of the club then for the non Rifle shafts we went 5" towards the club head, marked it and then placed that mark at the front of the clamp. Same with rifles but we only went 2.5" toward the club head and placed that at the front of the clamp.